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In college I need spanish 4 in order to graduate, and there is a placement test to see which spanish course you start at. I took this test on thursday, got the results via phone on friday and am supposed to pick the results up in person on tuesday.
Since I took 4 years of spanish in high school (10 years ago) and each spanish course is supposed to represent 1 year of high school spanish I got a grammar book, verb book and a couple of dictionaries until I learned spanish reasonably well (as well as I thought I knew it in high school). However I studied the wrong stuff, and only tested into the middle of spanish 2.
I want to get out of college in August 2007, and now I'm worried I won't get out until dec 2007. So I am looking into ideas for how I can do this.
1. Explain to the testing center that I don't think I belong in spanish 2. I think this is a good approach because not only did I have 4 years in high school and anything in spanish 2 would be redundant, but I ran out of time on the placement exam and had to guess the answer to about 15-20 of the 80 questions that was on it. So I don't think I would learn anything new in spanish 2. How should I approach them about this, knowing that they probably get students saying this all the time?
If this works out I could take spanish 3 in spring and spanish 4 in summer II.
2. Take a placement exam in another college. IU east also has spanish, so I could download the syllabi of spanish 2, 3 & 4 and study all of that this christmas break and spring, then take the test for their spanish placement exam in april of 2007. If I get into spanish 4 there I can take that in summer and it shoudl transfer to IUB. So just take spanish 4 at IU east.
3. Do correspondence courses and turn in HW and tests as fast as possible so I can hopefully complete 3 semesters of spanish in 8 months.
4. Bite the bullet and just give up and stay in school until december. THe problem with this is that I'd probably have to move in with my parents from August-December of 2007 and I'd rather not do that. There is good about living with family (my nieces are nearby) but I don't wnat to do this if I don't have to. I want to get a real job and a career and be on my own.
4a. I could try living in bloomington during that time. If I can find a 25 hr/week part time job and sell plasma that is about 700/month in income, which almost covers living expenses. But it is such a fucking waste, all that money spent on one course.
What other ideas should I look into? What should I say to the spanish placement people about trying to get bumped to spanish 3? Even with me guessing on 1/4 of the questiosn due to running out of time I still tested into the 'middle' of spanish 2, which means I already know half of it.
Since I took 4 years of spanish in high school (10 years ago) and each spanish course is supposed to represent 1 year of high school spanish I got a grammar book, verb book and a couple of dictionaries until I learned spanish reasonably well (as well as I thought I knew it in high school). However I studied the wrong stuff, and only tested into the middle of spanish 2.
I want to get out of college in August 2007, and now I'm worried I won't get out until dec 2007. So I am looking into ideas for how I can do this.
1. Explain to the testing center that I don't think I belong in spanish 2. I think this is a good approach because not only did I have 4 years in high school and anything in spanish 2 would be redundant, but I ran out of time on the placement exam and had to guess the answer to about 15-20 of the 80 questions that was on it. So I don't think I would learn anything new in spanish 2. How should I approach them about this, knowing that they probably get students saying this all the time?
If this works out I could take spanish 3 in spring and spanish 4 in summer II.
2. Take a placement exam in another college. IU east also has spanish, so I could download the syllabi of spanish 2, 3 & 4 and study all of that this christmas break and spring, then take the test for their spanish placement exam in april of 2007. If I get into spanish 4 there I can take that in summer and it shoudl transfer to IUB. So just take spanish 4 at IU east.
3. Do correspondence courses and turn in HW and tests as fast as possible so I can hopefully complete 3 semesters of spanish in 8 months.
4. Bite the bullet and just give up and stay in school until december. THe problem with this is that I'd probably have to move in with my parents from August-December of 2007 and I'd rather not do that. There is good about living with family (my nieces are nearby) but I don't wnat to do this if I don't have to. I want to get a real job and a career and be on my own.
4a. I could try living in bloomington during that time. If I can find a 25 hr/week part time job and sell plasma that is about 700/month in income, which almost covers living expenses. But it is such a fucking waste, all that money spent on one course.
What other ideas should I look into? What should I say to the spanish placement people about trying to get bumped to spanish 3? Even with me guessing on 1/4 of the questiosn due to running out of time I still tested into the 'middle' of spanish 2, which means I already know half of it.
